2-5) That sounds like everypony else’s problem, not mine.
6)
7) Well, this is a strange coincidence!
Local awesome artist and nice-pony extraordinaire Sir Lintalot had a game to gift me earlier today! I can only assume somepony referred me, which is super cool (though I would freak if I found out Lints specifically picked me themself)! Either way I made a steam account to receive it.
1) That seems to be a theme in your world. Everypony believes history is absolute, even as stories are retold biased towards whichever country is telling them.
2) Aw. Very mysterious pair, those two. At least for how much they influenced net culture.
3) Nope. Nothin’ bad. Remember that game store? I broke into it once. Not to steal anything, I liked them too much, just to keep playing a game I was obsessing over.
So I hid myself away inside and waited until they forgot about me and left for the night. Then I picked up a controller and started playing. And I played and played and played- so engrossed that I didn’t notice the entire night had passed and they came back to open the shop for the next day! When I finally realized what was happening, they were already inside setting things up! They just kinda walked around me!
Once they realized I was out of the trance they had me help them set everything up, but I didn’t get in trouble or anything for it. They just asked that I not do it again. They were a really sweet couple. I hate that they got bought out.
Anyway, I was up for about 30-somethin’ hours, give or take.
4) I don’t like that part toward the end: “Straightened out and fixed?”
5) If anypony can find a picture of that scene from the original Dragon Ball where after being asked if he likes bacon, Oolong turns to Goku and yells, “What are you- brain dead or somethin’!?” I’d appreciate if you attached it to this post with a photo reply.
1) You lost me.
2) Thanks! Now that’s something to shoot for!
3) I don’t know what you want me to say here. It’s a tragedy and neither of the two attacks should have happened.
4) Maybe?
5) Uh… No. That doesn’t sound familiar.
6) Nah.
7)
1) You’re overgeneralizing an overgeneralization.
2) I think it’s an instanced-type thing, because I’ve welcomed them both myself as well. (We’re talking about that game.)
3) Sure. Why not?
4) I got a little teary-eyed when I found out, but I’m okay. It would have been a life changer. But since it didn’t happen, nothing changed.
5) I know, right? At least I don’t have the flu. Must have just been a cold with a fever. Fever’s gone.
6) Man is a male human. No, I’ve never needed a hitmare.
7) On my second day subbing I accepted an aid position but they forced me to sub for a whole class. I had no idea what I was doing and found out later from the librarian that I was with one of the two worst behaved classes in the school. It was a horrible day. And at the end I was supposed to lead the students to the bus, but I didn’t know and just held a door open for a few classes.
Other than a few instances of having my phone out when I wasn’t doing anything, that’s all.
1) That’s the way of the world, isn’t it?
2) I don’t suppose I have much of a response to that.
3) I dunno. Thanks though-! [Inhale] [Cough]
I guess I just try to keep things relevant to this specific tumblr.
4) I think it’s just a few that ask lots of questions.
5) Bon-Bon and I guess she would.
Not something I’ve ever thought about, to be honest.
6) Why are you acting like this is such a big deal? There are lots of countries in your world that don’t allow weapons. Going back to your example, you’d either do your best to comply with whatever’s being demanded or run. But while we’re on this train of thought, what’s to stop the assailants from having weapons if they’re legal?
And to be perfectly honest, I think it would have still happened even if Krastos did have a weapon. He’s too gentle. Or he was. I’d like to hope that, in the same situation, events wouldn’t repeat themselves.
So… yeah. We’ll find out tomorrow if I’m near death.
1) Don’t pokemon have personalities independent of their species? How would I answer this? I mean, I like Jolteon. Doesn’t mean I identify with it.
2) Maybe. Maybe events are manipulated a little to give the appearance that we’re more unified than we are. Maybe that manipulation causes ponies to subconsciously behave better; because their internal voice expects it of them. Maybe other nations fear our unwavering loyalty to one another, and what that could do if directed toward a threat.
Maybe.
3) Cooler than not having weapons? I guess so. But they’re also dangerous.
4) Thanks, but I sort of played that game to death. I appreciate the notification, though!
5) Everypony can be a chump now and again. Nopony’s perfect.
6) I knew about Matt, that’s how I found out about the show. But I hadn’t heard anything about Mike. That’s fantastic! Do you have any voice credits for him?
1) I kept this one back when I was deleting some of the nonsense questions because it’s a pretty awesome track.
2) Sure takes me a while to answer questions, huh?
3)
4) Uh, alright. I’ll be waiting then. Not that you’re obligated or anything.
5) Sure, but they each represent a theology. That society’s leadership should be hidden and exclusive, that societies are better off governing themselves, or that all societies are meant to be unified under the direction of one unquestionable leader.
Of course, those aren’t the only options. Just the only choices in the game.
1) Thank you! I think I’d rather be compared to more of a role model-figure, no offense to Dash- I’d like to think she’s perfectly aware that her general behaviors aren’t the best to mimic, but thanks again!
2) Actually, yeah! That was pretty awesome! Makes me want to see a Deus Ex remake where you could switch to 3rd person for melee combat, action-arcade style. Like Dead Rising or Shenmue but, you know, balanced.
3) Is that a thing? Never heard of it.
4) Alright, Krastos, you win. I’m not arguing about it.
5 & 6) I don’t know that either of those are the answer. The second one definitely not, because it will never happen. And the first would be impossible to enforce.
7) I’m not afraid! I just don’t want to!
1-4) Mad props. You even sent the messages in reverse order so they’d show up properly in my inbox!
5) Can you explain further?
6) You’re probably referring to the section after the Read More break on this post. It’s not marked storytime due to content. Note the bolded warning at the beginning of the post.
7) Still workin’ on gettin’ there. It’s not so bad, though. You get used to it.
For those that don’t know, I had applied for a job as a general aid at the school I’ve been substituting at since the beginning of the school year. I just found out today that the principle wanted to hire me, but couldn’t because of my past record.
This is the first time I’ve ever had a real shot at a job, and I got screwed over by my past. The principle said he’s going to write a letter of recommendation to try and help me in the future, but the position has been filled.
I’m going to take the night off from tumblr. Probably won’t be a morning post tomorrow either.
1) And I do, that’s the whole point! But if I try to answer everything when I get too many questions, I can’t keep up. I spend hours working on answers and I still just keep steadily falling further behind. I start to lose followers- and I don’t care about the number. But if the follower count goes down, that means some ponies decided I was posting too much and it was getting on their nerves- and I try to please as many ponies as I can! But, somewhere something has to give.
2) And that’s okay! That’s why I do it! I want everypony to feel important! As long as my ask box keeps a lower message count I’ll still be able to answer everything. But if it gets too high I’m going to have to start deleting messages again.
3) Suggestive directions.
4) I try to approach subjects like that as delicately as I can, but I’m not going to deny who I am or the things I’ve seen.
5) There is no emphasis that can’t be better approached with a more well thought-out explanation. Alternately, just censor that [omitted]! I’ve said a hundred times I swear when I’m just hanging out with friends, as long as no little ones are around. It’s just not something foals should be exposed to early in life.
6) I haven’t, no. Not really interested, to be honest.
7) First thing I ever played was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 for the Neightendo. Some foals I was hanging out with lead me to this little, family-owned game store where they let you play games inside!
1) I wait six hours for tumblr to come back for this?
2)
3) Because we try not to force our way onto others. We’d rather they willingly conform.
4) Either defend yourself with what’s available or run and let somepony authorized to use more advanced forms of force deal with it.
5) Not really the kind of places you’d hang around as a poor mare.
6) Or it might put ideas into pony’s heads and cause events to repeat, at least in part. The more violence penetrates popular media, the more ponies get used to it; maybe even decide it’s something they want to be a part of, if they’re unstable.
7) I can’t do this anymore. For several days now I’ve answered three sets of questions instead of two; around twenty questions a day! And I’ve steadily hung around 50 messages in my ask box! Yesterday, I woke up from an hour long nap- an hour long! And I had 17 new questions! I can’t answer everything anymore. This is becoming exhausting and overwhelming and I just can’t do it anymore.
So if my ask box starts to get too full, I’m going to start deleting messages of zero consequence like this one, effective immediately. Sorry.
1) Good day, good mare. How do you do? Look fine!
2) How do you eat a mystery?
3) The Lyra works in mysterious ways, child.
Wait, would that make the demon bird from the last question eat me?
4) Uh… I guess I could make a Steam account. Feel like it would be wrong to decline a gift.
5) I’ve sat here for 5 minutes and I can’t even think of anything to say.
6) Please hold.
7) I swear these two just showed up next to each other in my inbox.
But I dunno. I assume everypony that gets as many asks as I do does. I just address most of them.
1) I’ll keep that in mind.
2) When I say short term, I’m talkin’ a few decades at the least. We’re not even talking about immediate issues. The problem with the Illuminati is the exact problem it had during the events of the first game. Ponies that meant well starting an organization that can wind up in the hooves of those less than suitable to lead. Those are the wild animals in my analogy. Sure, JC might do a good job within his division, but then what? What about the rest of the organization? What comes after he’s gone?
Ignoring the events of Invisible War for a moment, the point of the Helios ending is more of a sacrifice. A sacrifice of identity and a focus on the self in favor of an inescapable whole. This is directly mirrored by the need for JC to sacrifice part of who he is to become one with Helios. The downside of this, even if you’re willing to give away your freedom, is that as evidenced by Invisible War, it isn’t inescapable. That directly results in the second Helios ending in two, and I can’t help but feel a little unnerved whenever I watch it.
3) I don’t think you understand what hawks do to lizards.
4) Sounds like the beginnings of one of those hipster posts, probably with some caption like, “There is no formula to identity.”
5) You know, I never heard the whole song before. I figured the line was always just taken out of context. To that end, the last line of the chorus is interesting.
“Isn’t this a nightmare too?”
6) I’m not suicidal!